013 Crafting Weapons
As early as when Yuan Shao started his army in Hebei, he gathered a large number of skilled craftsmen through solicitation and forced recruitment, including blacksmiths who built weapons. Almost all the famous blacksmiths within a radius of 500 miles in Nanpi were obeyed by Yuan Shao's army. Now, they are standing in front of Wu Fan.
Thanks to Yuan Shao's many military generals, he was able to draw out his hands to visit these skilled craftsmen everywhere. Even if other monarchs had this idea, most of them did not have so many people to execute this order.
This old craftsman with white beards, named Gu Zhong, was all blacksmiths of his ancestors. He had a unique iron-making skills inherited from his ancestors. He was a top-notch craftsman in Hejian (a county under Nanpi). At that time, Guo Tu used both soft and hard methods to finally pull him and his son Gu Feng to Yuan Shao's army together.
The importance of weapons to generals is no different from a person's eyes. Wu Fan also wants to have a suitable weapon. However, when he taught that villain a lesson in the Luoyang market, Wu Fan once thought about the villain's spear, but it didn't feel any touch. It means that it is too light and too light to use. Since that moment, Wu Fan realized that his weapons were by no means something that ordinary blacksmith shops could create.
The character created by Wu Fan has no martial arts routines, but his martial arts attributes were adjusted to 95 by Wu Fan. In order to achieve consistency of his own ability and attributes, the system greatly improved the power of the character in terms of implicit settings. This made Wu Fan unexpected: under the wise face of this character, the power is beyond ordinary people's imagination!
The weapon of such a strongman would definitely not be built by ordinary blacksmith shops. Therefore, Wu Fan temporarily suppressed the idea of finding a weapon for himself and used whatever he got. After hearing what Gu Zhong said, he understood the origin of these craftsmen again, and the thought that had been suppressed in Wu Fan's mind was awakened again.
In the "Three Kingdoms" series of games, the weapons of Liu, Guan and Zhang are all treasures, but their weapons were only created by good craftsmen at the beginning. No matter in terms of scale or technical strength, they cannot be compared with the craftsmen in front of them. In this way, if these craftsmen were asked to build a weapon, they would definitely be a treasure, and their attributes would only be stronger than Liu, Guan and Zhang's weapons, and would never be weak!
Thinking of this, Wu Fan couldn't help feeling a little fluttered, but another question that immediately came to mind made Wu Fan's heart that had just risen fell heavily.
The problem that Wu Fan thought of was the raw material for building weapons, iron. This thing can be regarded as a strategic material in this era of chaos, and every force would regard it as a treasure. Although Wu Fan had just taken office as the Martial Arts Captain, he could also think with his toes that there would never be any excess iron for him to "squander". Basically, every time Yuan Shao issued an order to build weapons, he would definitely control the iron according to the number of weapons he created. If there was any remaining one after the construction was completed, he would have to hand over it in full.
Without iron balls to create weapons? Wu Fan suddenly became depressed.
Gu Zhong and more than a dozen blacksmiths saw that Wu Fan had just looked a little happy, and suddenly became depressed again. These people looked at each other a few times, not understanding why. Gu Zhong asked:
"Sir, do you have any questions? Could it be that you can't trust our craft?"
Wu Fan raised his face and smiled, saying:
"Old Gu was joking, how could I believe you? But, building weapons requires iron. I think there should be no extra iron to use in places like the arsenal, right?"
When Gu Zhong and these blacksmiths heard this, they laughed, and Gu Zhong said:
"Sir, if we say that the iron dominated by Lord Yuan is not enough to move. But if we say that we can use iron to build weapons for Lord Yuan, we can take it out."
Wu Fan asked in confusion:
"What does this mean?"
Gu Zhongdao:
"We blacksmiths usually deal with iron and have a special feeling for iron. When we hit iron, when we encounter extremely high-quality fine iron, we will buy it at a high price and be satisfied with our collection preferences. After coming to Master Yuan's army, these collected fine irons were also carried by our side, and we often heat and forge them when we have nothing to do. Now these fine irons are the real ones. No matter how heat and forge them, they are not bad at all. They are the best materials for building weapons. In other words, the iron dominated by Master Yuan is just to build crude weapons used by ordinary soldiers. We still think it is inappropriate to use such iron to create weapons for adults."
After hearing what Gu Zhong said, Wu Fan was overjoyed and said:
"So that's it, I understand. However, these 100-fried steels have been your collection for many years. Now they are used to build weapons for me, which makes me feel a little sad."
Gu Zhong said earnestly:
"Your Majesty, don't worry about this. These hundred-fried steels are always a piece of scrap iron in our hands. And after months of getting along, we blacksmiths have been in love with each other and have long been working together to create a weapon that can be passed down for a hundred generations. Now that you have saved your dog's life, we have no choice but to repay you. I just hope you don't refuse me to wait for this kind of good wish."
Gu Zhong said this, and the other blacksmiths also agreed with each other. Wu Fan naturally took advantage of the situation and bowed to the blacksmiths and said politely:
"Then I'll be grateful to you all."
Seeing that Wu Fan was so particular, more than a dozen craftsmen were happy and returned to their temporary residences in the city. The next moment, these craftsmen brought their own collection of 100-smart steel and presented them to Wu Fan, asking Wu Fan to choose the steel they like and build weapons.
Although Wu Fan knew nothing about metallurgy, he could tell that these steelmaking is many times stronger than the iron used to build ordinary weapons. Whether it is luster, dense, or feel, everything is not comparable to ordinary iron.
The few hundred steel made in these blacksmiths' hands were five or six kilograms, and the more than ten kilograms. Wu Fan picked up a few pieces and weighed them, frowned, and Gu Zhong saw them from the side and asked:
"Sir, are there any problems?"
Wu Fan shook his head and said:
"It's too light, too light. Let's find a basket."
Soon a soldier found a basket. Wu Fan asked these craftsmen to put all the steel steel in the basket. He stepped forward and held it in one hand. Well, it felt just right!
When these craftsmen and soldiers watching the fun saw this scene, they all widened their eyes and weighed them one hundred and three pounds!
Wu Fan laughed and said:
"Okay! Just use this hundred and three pounds of 100 steel to create a halberd!"
When everyone heard this, their chin almost smashed on the foot. One hundred and three pounds? The weight of a strong man holding his hands together to hold him up. Do you want to use it to build a weapon? Can it be swung?
Gu Zhong tactfully expressed his worries to Wu Fan.
Wu Fan disagreed and said:
"Just weigh this weight, there will be no problem. Don't worry. Unless you are reluctant to take out all these 100-year-old steel."
After Wu Fan said this, the craftsmen did not hesitate and walked quickly towards the iron furnace with these hundred-fried steel. While walking, they muttered:
"If you want to fight, just fight. Even if Lord Wu can't use it, weapons will still be weapons, and it will be passed down for a hundred years."
"We just do our best to treat it as a work of art and do it with all our might!"
"Yes, just do it!"
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But Wu Fan fulfilled his wish and was overjoyed. Although this halberd has not been released yet, it is only a matter of time.
Wu Fan, who was overjoyed, had nothing to do, so he wanted to stroll around the city, leave the arsenal, walk forward, and unconsciously arrived at the infantry organization station.
The Infantry Organization Institute can transfer positions for infantry whose experience meets the requirements for transfer. Because the site is relatively wide, infantry training is often carried out here, and the sound of assassination is endless.
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Wu Fan, who walked into the Infantry Organization Center, stood at the door, watching the infantry training in the center of the venue from afar. He was just saying that he was just a day of scheming, and he didn't want to make any achievements under Yuan Shao. Unless Yuan Shao took the initiative to send someone to find him, he would not take the initiative to go to the palace to receive any bullshit instructions like other generals.
At this time, a sound of footsteps sounded behind him, accompanied by the unique metal sound of armor and blades rubbing against each other. The sound should be a military officer, and there were more than one person.
When I was thinking this in my heart, a sound like a bell that was shaking my eardrums was already coming from behind Wu Fan:
Chapter completed!